Senior Project Manager

Royal London; Over Alderley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial services provider is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee major transformation initiatives. The role involves leading complex projects, managing diverse stakeholders, and applying best practices in project management to ensure successful delivery. Candidates should possess extensive experience in financial services project delivery, with strong problem-solving and leadership skills. This position offers a hybrid working model based in the UK, with competitive benefits including generous annual leave and a substantial pension scheme.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering complex projects in financial services.
• Ability to communicate effectively across all levels.
• Proven experience leading diverse teams and building consensus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage complex initiatives to meet project goals.
• Apply best practices in project management.
• Build relationships with third parties for effective project delivery.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Change management

Problem-solving

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh or Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 6th February 2026

We have several opportunities for Senior Project Managers to join our Chief Operating Office, initially focussed on a major transformation programme.

Our Chief Operating Office (COO) works across Royal London to help deliver the Group's strategic ambitions. We work in partnership to deliver operational excellence, drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and protect our business from threats impacting our industry.

COO is the largest business unit within Royal London, bringing together thousands of colleagues to look after millions of customers to deliver great outcomes for customers. Our business focuses on aligning colleagues, applications and projects with our three value streams: Long Term Savings, Protection & Equity Release, and Long-Standing Customers & Annuities, led by our Chief Information Officers, our Shared Service Platforms and Enabling Teams. This roles sit within Long-Standing Customers & Annuities.

About the role

We are delivering a major, multi year transformation that will transition outsourced administration andservicing back into Royal London, bringing critical operations, data, people, and technology in house. The programme will deliver the transfer of colleagues and operational capability, the migration of policies to our Royal Londonstrategic target platforms, and the transition of other platforms, supporting technologies including telephony, workflow and CRM solutions. We're looking for candidates with proven experience in large scale transitions or complex change environments-candidates who can navigate operational, technical and people centric change to ensure a smooth, well governed and high quality transition.

• Lead our most complex and critical initiatives
• Apply best project management practice to ensure outcomes are delivered to time, cost and quality objectives
• Provide leadership to the delivery team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
• Define and agree required level of project resource needed for successful project delivery
• Manage risks and issues, understanding a wider risk context associated with the business and the delivery
• Build a collaborative relationship with 3rd parties to manage delivery, costs and maximise value
• Implement appropriate level of Governance in-line with Group methods
• Cost control on the project and understanding the impact this has on Group-wide financial performance and value to the customer
• Coach and mentor other Project Managers in the team, potential with people management responsibilities
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the ways of working within our change delivery environment

About you

Extensive demonstrable experience of delivering complex projects within financial services, with:

• The ability to solve and unblock issues within teams or departments
• An adaptable approach to communicating across all levels in Royal London
• The skills to build consensus between organisations or highly independent and diverse stakeholders
• Proactivity and future thinking around the management and control of project costs and benefits
• Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross - functional environment
• Experience of leading project teams, building and maintaining the trust, confidence, commitment and collaboration of others
• Experience of working on integration programme or project, or platform migrations is highly desirable.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.